LIBYA: Ahmadinejad slams repression in Libya as Iranian authorities confiscate satellite dishes
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday slammed Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi for what he described as "unimaginable repression" against the Libyan people.
"It is unimaginable that someone is killing his citizens, bombarding his citizens," Ahmadinejad said in an interview broadcast on state television. "How can officers be ordered to use bullets from machine guns, tanks and guns against their own citizens?"
"This is unacceptable. Let the people speak, be free, decide to express their will," he added. "Do not resist the will of the people."
Ahmadinejad has been widely criticized for his government's violent crackdown on protesters following the disputed 2009 presidential elections in Iran.
The president's words followed midnight raids Monday and Tuesday on several apartment buildings in the Qods township in western Tehran, considered a bastion of the opposition. The raids were aimed at collecting banned television satellite dishes, sources in Tehran told Babylon & Beyond. Authorities have repeatedly blamed foreign and opposition media beamed into Iran via satellite for fomenting unrest against the government.
-- Meris Lutz in Beirut
AFP contributed to this report.
Photo: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized Libya for its violent crackdown on protesters. Credit: Fars News Agency
well the mad dog has never listened to the people he is still there.
thank you.
Posted by: sam | February 25, 2011 at 01:29 PM
How ironic of Ahmadinejad to tell Gaddafi to let the Libyans 'decide to express their will'. First of all, he doesn't do that himself; the many bloggers in jail for voicing their 'free will' speak for itself.
Posted by: Lisa | February 25, 2011 at 05:54 AM
WHO IN IRAN, PRAY, CARES THE LEAST FOR YOUR RAVINGS, IMPERIALIST PUPPETS AND STOOGES OF YOUR 'FOREIGN' MASTERS? GO ON BRAYING AND GIBBERING MORE; NO ONE PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THOSE RAMBLINGS.
Posted by: Abbas Jaffar | February 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM
The NEW Quaddafi!!!
Posted by: laffnmyazzoff | February 23, 2011 at 01:56 PM
Ell oh Ell, Mahmoud.
Posted by: Pablito | February 23, 2011 at 01:42 PM
What a TOOL!
Posted by: Rob | February 23, 2011 at 01:40 PM
hyp·o·crite
/ˈhɪpəkrɪt/
[hip-uh-krit]
–noun
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Posted by: xalm | February 23, 2011 at 01:29 PM
Delightfully hypocritical. he should come to the U.S. and run as a family values Republican.
Posted by: El Fweido | February 23, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Ahmadinejad = ............CRIMINALLY INSANE...........
Posted by: Tg Woe | February 23, 2011 at 09:35 AM
LOL! He's trying to position himself, trying to make his own subjects think he himself isn't a despot just like the rest, hoping his subjects don't increase their own rebellion for more freedom.
Posted by: Fredric L. Rice | February 23, 2011 at 09:34 AM
Mr. Ahmadinejad, this is the truth. Truth, this is Mr. Ahmadinejad, I don't believe you two have met. For a Muslim, this weasel sure has a lot of chutzpah.
Posted by: tknightfield | February 23, 2011 at 09:31 AM
What's the Farsi word for "hypocrite?"
Posted by: RR | February 23, 2011 at 08:58 AM
Sounds like Ahmejinedad is trying to cover himself, slamming a fellow dictator for what he himself is guilty of. He must be feeling a little uneasy for his own position right now.
Posted by: Oregonian | February 23, 2011 at 08:41 AM
The guy is a complete and total hypocrite. While he condemns Libya (and rightly so) he and his Mullahs call for the murder of opposition figures in their own country. His group has determined that Islam has dictated that only he and the Mullahs have the right to power. How convenient for them. Hooray for secularism in government.
Posted by: RWh | February 23, 2011 at 08:23 AM
Ahmadineja is probably gesticulating.How else could one analyse his his statement.Can a kettle call a pot, black?
Posted by: kenneth Onwuta | February 23, 2011 at 08:16 AM
Heh. Look who's calling the kettle black.
Posted by: John B | February 23, 2011 at 08:10 AM
"Do as I say, not as I do."
Posted by: carlos cahuas | February 23, 2011 at 08:07 AM
Has there everbeen a bigger hypocrit than Amadinejad.
Posted by: Searcher | February 23, 2011 at 08:00 AM
Irony: A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
Posted by: What? | February 23, 2011 at 07:57 AM
Wow, talk about the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot.
Posted by: rage777 | February 23, 2011 at 07:44 AM